CNG-converted two-stroke auto-rickshaws launched
The Department of Environment (DOE), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Environment Management Project (BEMP) started conversion of two-stroke auto-rickshaws to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel to
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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Barisal town dwellers facing water crisis
The people of Barisal Pourashava (Bangladesh) have been facing acute water crisis as one-third amount of water of the total amount is being supplied here.The pourashwa authorities has taken up a
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Gorai river flowing above target level
Bangladesh Water Resources minister Abdur Razzak said progress in the South-Western Bangladesh would remain an illusion unless a meaningful programme for the restoration of the Gorai river is taken
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Ground water-level gradually falling in Dhaka city
Water level in the city of Dhaka and the suburban areas is going down rapidly due to massive extraction of sub-soil water by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) through hundreds of deep
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ADB asks WASA to remove squatters from project sites
The Asian Development Bank has suggesteed Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) to take necessary steps to remove squatters from the project sites for expediting rehabilitation work of the
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Can lakes and waterways be reclaimed ?
Recommendations made as early as the 1920s to invorporate the country's network of rivers, lakes and canals into the urban development plans, if followed even remotely, could have given us a capital
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70pc WASA pump stations lack disinfection system
Some 70 per cent pump stations of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) are operating without dis-omfection system due to lack of chlorine gas, absence of operators and mechanical
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Cloning of rare dolphin
Chinese scientists plant to clone an endangered dolphin whose habitat in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is becoming increasingly polluted, the state run Xinhua News Agency said
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Permanent dams on Matamuhuri demanded
Additional crops worth Taka 60 crore are expected to be produced in this season in Chakoria thana with the construction of four temporary cross-dams on the Matamuhuri river at the initiative of
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Tk 80cr irrigation plan to Ctg
The soci-economic development of the disadvantageous farmers of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar regions of Bangladesh will recieve a fillip when an irrigation extension project at an estimated cost of